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That filter's a joke. We beat it several times within a month. on a chromebook.


Our's would check for words on the page and block it if it had certain words. A lot of times you could get around it just by moving over to https.


The one at my school was pretty entertaining, if you happened to stumble on a blocked site it would load a page with javascript obnoxious enough to lock up your computer while slowly flashing bright colors so everyone could see.




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